Michigan

Northwestern at Michigan TV/radio: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday; BTN, WGN-AM 720. Records: Northwestern 14-8, 4-7 Big Ten; Michigan 14-10, 4-7. Teddy Greenstein's quick look: It figures to be bombs away considering the Wildcats are first (9.2) and Michigan is second (8.4) in the Big Ten in 3-pointers made per game. Michigan has won three of its last four games after a 1-6 start in league play.

No charges will be filed against a Michigan high school student who was accused of sickening a teacher by putting Visine eye solution in her coffee, a prosecutor said on Saturday. Police in Fowlerville, Michigan, had recommended felony charges of tampering with a food or drink product be filed against the Fowlerville High School student, who school officials said made an algebra teacher very ill by placing Visine in her coffee for several days in mid-May. The student,...

A Berwyn man pulled from Lake Michigan earlier this week has died, authorities said. The man, identified as Israel Espinoza, 48, was pronouned dead at 7 a.m. Friday at Weiss Memorial Hospital after being pulled from the lake late Thursday night near Bryn Mawr Avenue, authorities said. Espinoza died from drowning, the Cook County medical examiner's office found Saturday following an autopsy. Espinoza was bobbing 20 to 30 feet from the shore when someone spotted him and called...

(Reuters) - A judge in Michigan has ruled that Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corp must face a criminal trial on a charge of bid-rigging with competitor Encana Corp at a 2010 state land lease auction, citing evidence of a conspiracy between the companies that drove state lease prices down sharply. The ruling, issued on Wednesday by Judge Maria Barton of Michigan's Cheboygan County District Court, dismissed two other criminal charges brought against Chesapeake by the...

NCAAF Team Report - Michigan - INSIDE SLANT On the day he was introduced as the next head football coach at tradition-rich Michigan, Brady Hoke stepped to the podium and told many of the diehard Wolverines faithful exactly what they wanted to hear. "We're going to run the football," Hoke said, in his unique, direct, no nonsense manner. There would not be much of the gimmickry, trickery and spread-this, spread-that of former head coach Rich Rodriguez. The Wolverines were going to run the ball...

(Reuters) - A soccer player accused of punching a referee and fatally injuring him during a weekend game in a Detroit suburb has been charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Bassel Abdul-Amir Saad, 36, had been charged with assaulting referee John Bieniewicz, 44, during a game in Livonia, Michigan, but the charges were upgraded following his death, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement. "The entire soccer world mourns with...

Michigan suspended starting tailback Fitz Toussaint indefinitely after he was arrested on a drunken driving charge Saturday. “Fitz made a poor decision and has been suspended indefinitely because of that action,” coach Brady Hoke said in a news release. “There are expectations that come with being a football student-athlete at the University of Michigan and those responsibilities were not met in this instance. ”We will use this as an opportunity to educate Fitz and make sure he...

For Capt. Ralph Steiger, launching his 21-foot walleye boat out of Chicago harbors last year had become a precarious affair. Lake Michigan had receded to an all-time low, and where water had been, exposed rocks, rebar and driftwood remained. By fall, the lake was so low at Burnham Harbor that Steiger's boat could not safely slide off the ramp. This year, however, Steiger's launching luck has changed - buoyed by thick winter snowpacks and heavy spring rains that have...

Michigan 44, Purdue 13: Denard Robinson rushed for 235 yards and Fitzgerald Toussaint added a pair of scoring runs as the visiting Wolverines routed the Boilermakers. Toussaint scored the game's first two touchdowns - both 1-yard runs, and Raymon Taylor returned an interception 63 yards for a score to give Michigan (3-2, 1-0 Big Ten) a 21-0 lead. The Wolverines led 28-10 at halftime. Robinson's rushing total was his best in a Big Ten game. He broke Antwaan Randle-El's Big Ten record for rushing...

A body pulled from Lake Michigan last night near Navy Pier is possibly a 27-year-old woman who went missing during a boating mishap May 31 that also claimed the life of a Chicago attorney, authorities said. An autopsy determined the woman, in her 20s, died of drowning from a boating accident, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Her death was ruled an accident and is a "possible companion" to the death of Ashley Haws, according to the...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on Friday signed into law bills that complete funding for a key component of Detroit's plan to adjust $18 billion of debt and exit the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. The legislation allocates nearly $195 million in state funds for the so-called grand bargain, which includes $366 million pledged over 20 years by philanthropic foundations and $100 million from the Detroit Institute of Arts. The money would be...

Under Armour plans to open its first Chicago retail store on the Magnificent Mile next March, and it will be the athletic-wear retailer's largest “brand house” to date, the company announced Tuesday. Under Armour has leased 30,000 square feet at 600 N. Michigan Ave., formerly home to Eddie Bauer, which closed its Michigan Avenue store in January and is opening a smaller store soon at 755 W. North Ave., on the first floor of what used to be Borders bookstore. ...

The flow of sand on the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan is out of balance, creating serious erosion in some places and too much sand in others, experts say. After decades of treating the problem at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in a more or less piecemeal fashion, the National Park Service is composing what it says is a comprehensive strategy to resolve the problem. Months before a formal plan is released, however, the 20-year, nearly $41 million...